Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...committee is chosen with the aim of getting a group which will as far as possible represent all elements in the Freshman class, from the point of view of geographical distribution, high school and private school divisions, and location in the Yardling dormitories...
...McWilliams gave Harry Dalton a new aim in life. Harry's West Pointer father, a former sergeant at arms of the New York State Senate, and as husky as his son, joined him in the cause. For $50 they bought a fruit & vegetable truck, festooned it with flags, mounted a pair of spotlights, christened it Old Ironsides and moved in on McWilliamsland. Said Harry: "I decided to find out if Yorkville was a part of the U. S." If McWilliams held three street-corner meetings a week, the Daltons held five. Harry talked about Americanism, and what it meant...
...course provides successful candidates with a commission as an ensign in the reserve after four months of training, one month at sea, and three months in the U.S.S. Ellinois in New York harbor. Its aim is to fill a complement of 5000 which it is estimated by Naval officers will be attained following the fifth of the series of cruises...
...December 1938, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, then Premier of Japan, made a famous speech in which he proclaimed that Japan's aim was the creation of a New Order in East Asia. Ostensibly this meant that the Orient should be for Orientals, working in cooperation with each other; actually, it developed, it was to mean an Orient for the enjoyment of Japan. Recently, after a year and a half's retirement, Prince Konoye returned to power at the head of a quasi-fascist Government. Like a poor but ambitious woman who cocks a new feather...
...Nearly half of North Carolina's high-school boys and girls (white and Negro) plan to enter a profession, but only one white boy in 31 and one Negro in 175 realize that aim when they leave school. Few white boys plan to take a job as a servant, 18 times as many actually...